Episode
Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Offspring
Overview
Stardate: 43657.0. Data becomes a father when he creates a Soong-type android in the form of a daughter named Lal. Issues are complicated when Lal starts showing signs of a more evolved consciousness, including the ability to feel emotions, which attracts the attention of Starfleet scientists who want to take her away from Data and examine her advanced systems.
Details
- Series
- Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 16
- Air date
- 1990-03-12
- Runtime
- 46 min
Episode context
The Offspring is Episode 16 in Season 3 of Star Trek: The Next Generation. It aired on 1990-03-12. The runtime is 46 min.
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Episode 15: Yesterday's Enterprise
Stardate: 43625.2. A rift in the space/time continuum brings the U.S.S. Enterprise - C forward into the 24th Century, and alters the timeline. In this future, the Federation is at war with the Klingons, Tasha Yar is on the bridge, Worf did not join the Federation, and only Guinan's unique perception of reality may restore the timeline.
Episode 17: Sins of the Father
Stardate: 43685.2. Worf is reunited with his long-lost brother when their father is charged with treason for helping the Romulans. Together they make an appeal to the Klingon High Council to challenge the charges, and have them revoked.
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Stardate: 43714.1. Picard is secretly abducted and switched with an alien double. The crews' suspicions are raised when he starts exhibiting unusual behaviour, and is relieved of command.
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Episode 19: Captain's Holiday
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Episode 12: The High Ground
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Episode 20: Tin Man
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Episode 11: The Hunted
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Episode 21: Hollow Pursuits
Stardate: 43807.4. A nervous and insecure officer, Lt. Reginald Barclay, places the Enterprise in great danger when he neglects his duties in Engineering, and instead spends his time acting out his fantasies on the holodeck.
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Episode 22: The Most Toys
Stardate: 43872.2. The crew are shattered by the apparent death of Data in a shuttle explosion, and are prevented from carrying out a detailed investigation when Starfleet gives them orders for a new mission elsewhere. However, the crew don't realize that he was actually abducted and placed on display as part of a collection of rare and valuable items held by a disreputable character.